Warthog commented:

SurlyMonk commented:

How the hell would he know? Obama wants to build the economy from the bottom up. Where did this from the middle out come from? What little economics I know states that neither is possible. Obama is destroying the middle class.

Patty commented:

He hung around the RNC convention more than Romney.

Please don’t hang to much around what he says as if is he deserves a Gold Medal in his marriage. Hope he isn’t commenting on Latinos like Governor Susanna Martinez or Rubio or Mia Love, or Condilezza Rice or Ryan or Romney.

Reagan would be proud of Ann Romney and all the Romney’s they are faithful to their families and their wives.

It is really not sanctimonious when these democrats bring up Reagan and then they speak for REAGAN. Really, throwing his name around like the knew the man. I doubt if Reagan would raise taxes when a nation was doing bad economically. OH, HE DIDN’T.

He said he feels recovery works from the middle. Really, then what has California done. They are Bankrupt, so Villaraigosa, if you are so wonderful then why is that.

AND STOP TALKING ABOUT REAGAN LIKE YOU KNOW HIM. HE IS TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE.

FurryGuy commented:

Politics: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa these days is Mr. Popular. Yahoo News even wondered whether he might be presidential material. To which we respond, have you been to L.A. lately?

Telegenic and glib, Villaraigosa currently serves as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and this week will preside over the Democratic Party convention in Charleston, N.C. He’s a politician built for the media age, which has led to a series of prominent posts — including a place on President Obama’s Economic Advisory Transition Board in 2008.

Villaraigosa is making the rest of bankrupt California look like an economic paradise. He is just doing for Los Angeles what Barry is doing to the country as a whole.

Patty commented:

Questions are already being raised about whether Villaraigosa, mayor of the country’s second largest city and part of the rapidly growing Hispanic population, has presidential aspirations.

“The answer is no. The job I’ve said to people I would like is I would like to be governor of the state of California” he said.

As did his hero during the 2008 presidential campaign, Villaraigosa demonstrates enough politically savvy to paint himself as a centrist. He has publically expressed support for the Simpson-Bowles Commission and concerns over the strength of government sector unions. Much like those of his idol in the White House, Villaraigosa’s expressions of concern are empty rhetoric.

In the state of California, a growing number of cities are teetering on the brink of or have already filed for bankruptcy. Mammoth Lakes, Vallejo, Stockton, Compton, Bell and San Bernardino are all guilty of mishandling their finances. They have spent years shuffling monies from fund to fund in attempts to hide huge budget deficits. The city of Los Angeles is right there with them.

“The enemy is algebra” says San Jose city councilman Sam Liccardo, a Democrat. “The fact is the unions own the Democratic Party” he said. Government employee unions call the shots for the Democratic Party in California.

California’s widespread, growing fiscal problems are directly tied to the corrupt quid quo pro relationship between government sector unions, the Democratic politicians they elect, and the ballooning costs of government sector union salaries, benefits and pensions.

“Party orthodoxy is much more strictly enforced at the state level, because the unions decide who wins and who loses” said Liccardo.